leptin (lep), the expression product of the obese gene produced primarily in the adipose tissue, is related to feed intake, growth and lipid metabolism. the aim of this study was to study the possible association between polymorphism of the lep gene with growth and carcass traits among three iranian sheep breeds of the shal, zandi and zel varieties. a total of 180 purebred animals of the shal, ...

The Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect) is a complete probe of ionized baryons, the majority of which are likely hiding in the intergalactic medium. We ran a 512 3 ΛCDM simulation using a moving mesh hydro code to compute the statistics of the thermal and kinetic SZ effect such as the power spectra and measures of non-Gaussianity. The thermal SZ power spectrum has a very broad peak at multipo...

foundations behavior is affected by soil behavior which can vary from dilative to contractive depending on the stress level, particularly in dense frictional soils. the zero extension lines (zel) method has been generally developed to predict the foundations behavior. knowledge of soil behavior enables the zel method to predict the general and local shear failure modes. in this paper, a relativ...

P. MOSKAL, H.-H. ADAM, A. BUDZANOWSKI, R. CZYŻYKIEWICZ, D. GRZONKA, M. JANUSZ, L. JARCZYK, B. KAMYS, A. KHOUKAZ, K. KILIAN, P. KLAJA, J. MAJEWSKI, W. OELERT, C. PISKOR–IGNATOWICZ , J. PRZERWA, T. ROŻEK, T. SEFZICK, M. SIEMASZKO, J. SMYRSKI, A. TÄSCHNER, P. WINTER, M. WOLKE, P. WÜSTNER, W. ZIPPER ∗ Nuclear Physics Department, Jagellonian University, Cracow, 30-059, Poland † Institut für Kernphys...

Our three frequencies radiometer MASTER, which allows low noise observations in three frequency intervals around 90, 220 and 345 GHz is being completed. We discuss the possibility of exploiting the MASTER's characteristics for studies of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect from the Antartic Plateau and propose an observational program from Dome C.

Abstract The whole blood potassium concentration has shown the bimodal distribution in sheep, which has been classified into LK and HK types; HK allele is recessive to LK with a single gene inheritance. This polymorphism showed different behavior in different environment, which could be due to adaptation process. This research was conducted on the Zel and kermani breed research station, which...

We present an overview of the current status and the future of observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich eeect. In particular we examine the capabilities of an upgraded Australia Telescope for detecting the SZ eeect.

genetic improvement programs may improve disease resistance in animal production. the best-characterized genetic control of disease resistance and immune response in animals is the one associated with the major histocompatibility complex (mhc). the ovine lymphocyte antigenof drb1 gene encodes cell surface glycoproteins that initiate immune responses by presenting processed antigenic peptides to...

Genotypes of Iranian Zel sheep for Calpastatin(CAST) locus were determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) methods and for Calpain(CAPN) locus by PCR-SSCP. Blood samples were collected from 200 purebred Zel sheep of Zel Breeding Station located in Golestan province i...

the objective of the current study was to investigate the effects of sex and carcass weight on the fatty acid composition in longissimus dorsi in zel lambs. thirty pasture reared lambs (15 males and 15 females) were randomly selected from local flocks. following slaughtering, the carcasses were assorted into two groups, according to their weights (>15kg and